The USA has won three Women's World Cups, four Olympic titles, and three U-20 Women's World Cups. The only world championship on the female side the USA has never won is the U-17 Women's World Cup, a biennial competition that launched in 2008.

The acronym RICE -- which stands for Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation -- has been around since Dr. Gabe Mirkin introduced it in 1978. Since then, healthcare professionals have viewed it almost as gospel that immediately after an acute sports injury you apply ice and light compression. I've never encountered a single athletic trainer or team doctor that wouldn't recommend this, and I also recommend it for young athletes in the first few days after a joint injury.

Thirteen of the USA's 18-woman squad at the Olympic Games in Rio played in a U-20 Women's World Cup, as did 15 members of the USA's 2015 Women's World Cup-winning team. We spoke with U.S. U-20 coach Michelle French.

South California clubs won a pair of US Youth Soccer national titles last weekend in both boys and girls competitions, including FC Golden State's lifting of the McGuire Cup, the U-19 boys competition that is the nation's oldest youth trophy, dating back to 1935.